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WOMEN are doing more chores and parenting duties while working from home compared with men with similar responsibilities, studies on the effect of the lockdown on parents revealed yesterday.
Researchers from the Institute of Fiscal Studies (IFS) and University College London’s institute of education asked 3,500 families about school closures, job losses, increased working from home and furloughing.
Between April 29 and May 15, they asked how individual parents of each family divide paid and unpaid responsibilities.
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